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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has redrawn his ambitious plan for reorganizing the Interior Department after the agency received numerous complaints from Western leaders and members of Congress that splitting up states into multiple regions would cause more harm than good.

At least 14 people have been confirmed dead in Papua New Guinea after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the nation yesterday, triggering landslides and causing buildings to collapse. Unconfirmed reports suggest the death toll could be closer to 30.

A German court ruled today that local governments can ban vehicles from some streets to combat air pollution, a decision with far-reaching consequences for the nation's automakers.

On their own, the feathers all over the car might not have meant anything, but the fidgeting backpack was an obvious clue for Massachusetts police.

A state review has found that Sonoma County officials in Northern California were disorganized and lacked training and a plan to address the deadly wildfires that put 100,000 people at risk in October.

Wyoming Senate lawmakers have restored funding for an independent environmental review board that rejected a coal mining permit.

Food vendors and restaurants in Malibu, Calif., will have until June 1 to stop offering or selling plastic straws, utensils and stirrers under a ban passed last night by the City Council.

Trash has piled up on the U.S. Virgin Islands after back-to-back hurricanes pummeled the islands this fall, and officials don't know where to put it all.

The District of Columbia's transportation agency is considering retiring its streetcars to make room for a new design with parts that are easier to replace, according to officials and testimony.

Self-driving cars can now be tested in California with no one behind the wheel.

Duke Energy Corp., American Electric Power Co. and Dayton Power & Light have announced the sale of the site of a coal-fired power plant along the Ohio River.

U.S. EPA has rejected a pair of related administrative challenges to the operating permit for one of the Tennessee Valley Authority's coal-fired power plants.

A judge has directed California officials to stop spraying pesticides, a blow to the state's efforts to control crop-killing pests like the Asian citrus psyllid.

The Nuclear Energy Institute yesterday asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by Florida-based utility NextEra Energy Inc., the latest salvo in a messy public split between two former allies.

A fifth person has died after a helicopter crashed in the western part of the Grand Canyon earlier this month.

A dense grove of evergreen trees in Northern California survived the state's five-year drought by drawing on "rock moisture" 50 feet below the surface, according to a new study.

The North Atlantic right whale population might well end its breeding season without a single new birth, prompting experts to worry that the species won't survive without human help.

The Conservation Fund is beefing up its board of directors.

The National Park Service has some bad news for the Florida teens who wanted to hold a gun-control rally on the National Mall on March 24: The site is already taken.

Voting on environmental and energy issues reached previously unseen partisan extremes in 2017, the League of Conservation Voters said in its annual scorecard released this morning.

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